[1] On the baronets of Prestonfield see Mrs. J. Stewart Smith, The Grange of St. Giles, and the other Baronial Homes of the Dick-Lauder Family, Edinburgh, 1898, 126-136, and Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Privy Council and Order of Precedence, 97th ed., London, 1939, 710-712.

[2] M. Knoedler & Co. purchased a joint share in the painting from T.H. Robinson, London, in June 1921 and sold the painting to Clarke in October, according to Knoedler librarian Melissa de Medeiros (letter, 5 June 1992, in NGA curatorial file). The name of the seller and the date of purchase are recorded in a copy of Portraits by Early American Paintings of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, (Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928) annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).

Exhibition History

1884

Scottish National Portraits, Edinburgh, 1884, no. 456

1922

Portraits Painted in Europe by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, January 1922, no. 4.

1928

Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue.